given Olympus' usual tendency to introduce high for new adopters and then quickly drop prices to actual market conditions.

Olympus can do this only if the camera excites the potential consumer.

The problem is that we have see some game-changing and truly exciting cameras in the last few months (Sony RX100 and RX1 comes to mind). By comparison, putting an existing E-M5 sensor into re-tooled bodies is pretty ho-hum.